Date: 1792
"In this pause of intellect; this deliquium of the soul, an enthusiastic sensation of pleasure overspreads it, previous to any examination by the rules of art."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1792
"The leading ideas must be fixed on the spot: if left to the memory, they soon evaporate."
preview | full record— Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
Date: 1793
"The most palpable of all classes of knowledge is that I am, personally considered, but an atom in the ocean of mind."
preview | full record— Godwin, William (1756-1836)
Date: 1794
"As those which contribute to circulate the blood, and to perform the various secretions; as well as the associate tribes and trains of ideas, which contribute to furnish the perpetual streams of our dreaming imaginations."
preview | full record— Darwin, Erasmus (1731-1802)
Date: 1797
"Dwell upon this affecting scene, till it has excited your pity; and this pity, while it melts the mind to Christian love, shall insensibly produce a temper of habitual sympathy and softness."
preview | full record— Wilberforce, William (1759-1833)